Bond and his partner had gone around the back where Bond found three boys around his age burning documents. While driving back to Chelsea, the scent of a campfire returned Bond to his memories of & June, 1944 while observing BRODFORCE as they tried to infiltrate Chateau Malflacon. He sneaked out, but left a note thanking her for the drink he had taken having confirmed that their meetings and her invitation had all been coincidence, and throwing professional caution to the wind on his day off. Unfortunately he found that she was not there and, desiring to investigate, he slipped the lock on her back door and wandered about her house before she returned with her car being towed before calling her friends to cancel the party. He was lent a Jensen FF for the night, and headed out to Fitzjohn's. Before heading out, Bond headed to a car dealership to look at the Jensen Interceptor I, to replace his old and costly to repair Bentley. In the elevator, and again at breakfast he met Bryce Fitzjohn, who invited him to a cocktail party, which he politely refused before deciding at lunch to go for it.
The morning of his 45th birthday, James Bond awoke from dreams of his time in World War II.
Not only did it fit the theme of the novel perfectly, it's also a great punchy word, instantly and internationally comprehensible, graphically alluring and, as an extra bonus, it's strangely Bondian in the sense that we might be subliminally aware of the '00' of '007' lurking just behind those juxtaposed O's of SOLO …" ― William Boyd Plot " Titles are very important to me and as soon as I wrote down Solo on a sheet of paper I saw its potential.
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